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Luxion ships KeyShot 8.1
Free update to the renderer adds support for 16-bit PSD output, new Invert Selection command, plus improved stability and bugfixes.
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Videos: see Siggraph Asia 2018’s best technical papers
Watch the best tech demos from the show - from advances in VR to new ways to melt your CG dragon.
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Allegorithmic ships Substance Painter 2018.3
Texture painting tool gets 'huge boost' to viewport performance and quality, better symmetry painting.
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Download neat new free camera matching tool fSpy
Open-source tool finds the camera position for real-world backplates for use in VFX or composited stills.
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Otoy ships OctaneRender 4.0
Long-awaited major update to the GPU renderer adds the Brigade path tracing engine, AI denoising, light linking, new ubermaterial.
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Otoy releases first preview of OctaneRender 2018.1
XB1 build includes new procedural systems Vectron and Spectron; Cryptomatte and NVLink support.
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The best Black Friday and winter 2018 deals for CG artists
Save money with over 60 amazing Black Friday and winter offers on CG software, hardware and assets.
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Render Legion ships Corona Renderer 3 for 3ds Max
Renderer gets support for GPU-based render denoising, better displacement, reduced RAM use.
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Alexey Vanzhula makes Flux available for free
Get the neat real-time Boolean and retopology toolset for Houdini free. Works in Maya and Cinema 4D via Houdini Engine.
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Get two free Renderpeople animated characters
Download free animated characters in 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Maya and FBX formats. For commercial use.
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Discover how to create AAA game art for virtual reality
Discover how First Contact Entertainment created VR shooter Firewall Zero Hour at Gnomon's free talk next week.
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Download free Blender texture scattering plugin SCATTr
Handy add-on distributes textures across a surface. Uses range from PBR materials to motion graphics.
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Abvent ships Artlantis 2019
Architectural rendering software gets new site insertion tool and exposure slider. Old Render and Studio editions unified into one.
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F12 ships The Grove Release 7
Update moves the tree-generation tool over to Blender 2.8, improves performance, and makes it possible to re-edit your trees after creation.
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Foundry releases Katana 3.1
Update to look dev tool extends the Hydra viewport and 3Delight render plugin; supports the VFX Reference Platform 2017 standard.
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Next Limit releases RealFlow | 3ds Max 1.0
Create RealFlow simulations inside 3ds Max with the new cut-down plugin version of the fluid simulator.
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Discover cutting-edge workflows for 360° concept art
Master vital 2D and 3D techniques with new Gnomon tutorial Creating 360° Concept Art for Production.
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Blender 2.80 is now in beta. See the top 5 features here
Videos: See five things to love about the open-source 3D app, from the new UI to rendering and 2D animation tools.
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Autodesk ships Maya 2018.5 and Maya LT 2018.5
Online changelog suggests that they're both just bugfixes on the way to Maya and Maya LT 2019.
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Chaos Group ships V-Ray Next for 3ds Max Update 1
Update improves IPR performance in the 3ds Max renderer, and adds support for GPU bucket rendering.
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